Sears Web Site Hit By Black Friday Outage

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Sears Web Site Hit By Black Friday Outage
- By: Rich Miller
  November 28th, 2008
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The huge crowds for Black Friday and Cyber Monday almost always result in outages for high-profile web sites. The early casualty this year appears to be Sears.com, which is experiencing performance problems Friday morning.

There are also reports of Black Friday performance problems for Microsoft’s Live Cashback site. Keynote Systems reported that the Kohl’s Corp. and Saks Inc. web sites also struggled at times amid heavy web traffic.
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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

Vanessa VanHoosen

Posted November 28th, 2008

Sears.com is famous for outages, check the site around 1am and you’ll not be disappointed. BF 2007 was a bad time for Sears, their site was down almost 12 hours. Hopefully they’ll get their junk together and get today’s problem resolved quickly. I’m sure there are a lot of jobs on the line at SHLD.

Wookie

Posted November 29th, 2008

This is the second year Sears went “casters up” on black friday. They could learn a few things from their Land’s End aquired engineers who can write websites that actually work and survive heavy traffic times.